INSIGHTS FROM THE AUTHOR: EMILY MENDENHALL

How an Iowa Summer Resort Region Became a Covid-19 Hot Spot was first published on Vox.com and is reprinted here with permission from the authors, Vox.com, and Vox Media, LLC. The original article (with additional links) can be accessed at URL:<https://www.vox.com/2020/8/8/21357625/covid-19-iowa-lakes-okoboji-kim-reynolds-masks>. Photos by David Thoreson were added for this reprint and were not included in the original publication.

WRITING COLLABORATIVE HAPPINESS

In this article, I discuss a collaborative research project with two urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo, and Quayside Village, in North Vancouver. The project focused on the joint production of the good life in the two communities, both of which situate well-being as simultaneously social and subjective, thus expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness narrowly focused on the individual. In what follows, I describe the particular forms that collaboration took over the course of the six-year project and then provide a brief overview of the positive contributions cohousing can make to social and environmental sustainability.

FRONTERAS EN EL LENGUAJE, EL PUBLICAR, Y PODER

Antropólogos aplicados en el mundo de inglés-hablantes suelen ignorar publicaciones en otros lenguajes; las instituciones les dan énfasis a las publicaciones en inglés y les dan menos credibilidad o valor a otros lenguajes. Inclusive, antropólogos aplicados escribiendo en lenguajes que no son en inglés frecuentemente escogen fuentes en inglés. La invisibilidad de la antropología aplicada que no sea en inglés disminuye la riqueza de nuestro campo, ya que nos perdemos de oportunidades de tener más conocimientos de diferentes tradiciones académicas, prácticas y culturales. Esta publicación, basada en el comité que se llevó a cabo en las juntas de SfAA en 2021, presenta las reflexiones sobre los retos del lenguaje sobre la circulación de conocimientos globales para la práctica antropológica. Resaltamos las relaciones de poder integradas en el lenguaje, tanto como las oportunidades para antropólogos aplicados de promover la comunicación y la colaboración cruzando fronteras.

INSIGHTS FROM THE AUTHOR: JACQUELYN HEUER

How Food Banks Help Americans Who Have Trouble Getting Enough to Eat was previously published on The Conversation and is reprinted here with permission from the authors and The Conversation. The original article (with additional links) can be accessed at URL:<https://theconversation.com/how-food-banks-help-americans-who-have-trouble-getting-enough-to-eat-148150>.

INSIGHTS FROM THE AUTHOR: LISA J. HARDY

Why India Needs Oxygen More Urgently Than Vaccines was first published on Vox.com and is reprinted here with permission from the authors, Vox.com, and Vox Media, LLC. The original article (with additional links) can be accessed at URL:<https://www.vox.com/22428619/india-covid-oxygen-shortage-supply-tankers-vaccines>.